1. I. Simple sentence : verb
1. With the passing of time and the encroachment of people, the habitat of gorillas
__________ to decrease.
a. Continuing
b. Which continue
c. Continues
d. continued
2. Sugar intake, particularly that of refined sugar, ________ curtailed by most overweight
people wishing to lessen their corpulence.
a. Must being
b. Which must
c. Must be
d. Must
3. In recent months, the final mapping of the human genome ________ the range of medical
treatments and cures available to those suffering from various diseases .
a. Has extended
b. Extends
c. Will extend
d. Will have extended
4. Intelligent life on other planets, while remaining an intriguing possibility, ________ yet to
be discovered .
a. Has
b. has been
c. has not
d. have
5. Despite being basically arboreal in nature, koalas ________ to inhabit a specific territory
and range of some 30 square miles.
a. Knowing
b. which know
c. are knowing
d. are known
6. Initially elected as a labour leader, Jimmy Hoffa _________ mysteriously.
a. Vanishing

2. b. who vanished
c. vanished
d. vanishes
7. Broccoli _________ best in gardens having loose, well-composted soil, and full sunlight.
a. had grown
b. grows
c. growing
d. which grows
8. Many of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut __________ a remarkable skepticism about the
ultimate value of technological advances.
a. Display
b. will have displayed
c. they display
d. had displayed
9. Because of copper's conductivity, it __________ for housing electrical cords and circuitry.
a. Values
b. is valued
c. is being valuable
d. has valued
10. Numerous performances of Mozart's operas __________ in Austria long before the
beginning of the 19th century.
a. Perform
b. had been performed
c. had performed
d. were performing
11. The memory of Juarez ___________ in Mexico more than that of any other man.
a. has venerated
b. venerates
c. will venerate
d. is venerated

3. 12. At the railway station, the Gray morning light __________ to filter in between the heavy stone
pillars upon throng of straw-hutted peasants, Indian women carrying their burdens on their backs, and
sleepy, tired soldiers.
a. is begun
b. begun
c. was beginning
d. begin
13. Like sentinels on guard, the slender spikes of monkshood __________ straight and tall among the
grasses and herbs of moist mountain meadows.
a. Stand
b. are stood
c. will be stood
d. was standing
14. ___________ immense chasms filled with realistic rock forms resembling Oriental cities and
castles of the Middle Ages.
a. Bryce Canyon have
b. In Bryce Canyon are
c. Bryce Canyon are having
d. This Bryce Canyon was had
15. Now a new way in tooth cleaning, different in formula and effect, __________ in the special film-
removing dentifrice.
a. Embodies
b. is embodied
c. had embodied
d. will be embodying
Answers: C , C, A , A, D , C, B , A, B , B, D, C, A, B,D